NUMERICAL VERIFICATION OF SCALING LAWS FOR SHOCK-BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTIONS IN ARBITRARY GASES

The steady, two-dimensional interaction of an oblique shock with a lam inar flat-plate boundary layer has been examined through use of the Be am-Warming implicit scheme. A wide range of fluids is considered as ar e freestream pressures corresponding to dense gases, i.e., gases at pr essures which are so large that the ideal gas law is no longer accurat e. The results, when combined with the triple-deck theory of Kluwick ( 1994), provides strong support for the idea that the classical scaling laws can be extended to dense gases.